Workers

Mgr. Zuzana Loskotová, Ph.D.

Centre for Protohistoric Archaeology

She completed her master’s degree in archaeology at the Silesian University in Opava, and received her Ph.D. degree after defending her doctoral thesis: “The Roman Period and Migration Period in the northern forfield of the Moravian Gate.“ (supervisor: prof. PhDr. Jan Bouzek, CSc.) at Masaryk University in Brno in 2013. Her first profession was as an archaeologist and curator at the Regional Museum in Olomouc. Since 2009, she has been working at the current Centre for Protohistoric Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology Czech Acad Sci, Brno.

She specializes in the 5th and 6th centuries in Central Europe, i.e. the Migration Period, which is associated with large population migrations, the consequences of negative climate changes and dramatic events in the process of shaping early medieval Europe.

In the past and currently, she participates in international projects focused on the use of genetic analyses in archaeology: “Medieval Genetics. Population Mobility in the Early Middle Ages through Genomic Research.” (P. J. Geary, Institute for Advanced Study). She collaborates with the international team of the ERC Synergy Grant (Reg. No. 856453): “HistoGenes – Integrating genetic, archaeological and historical perspectives on Eastern Central Europe” (www.histogenes.org).

Since 2021, she has been the researcher of the prestigious grant of the Junior Star category of the Czech Science Foundation (Reg. No. 21-31765M): “Lombard population in Moravia. Interdisciplinary research into Migration Period necropolises.”. She is currently also involved in the grant project “Climate Susceptibility and Resilience in Protohistoric and Early Medieval Societies of the Middle Danube Region” (Reg. No. 26-23228S; PI: Marek Vlach – Institute of Archaeology Czech Acad Sci, Brno; co-PI: Miroslav Trnka – Global Change Research Institute AS CR, v. v. i.;

She has been conducting long-term excavation of the Migration Period cemeteries in Moravia: Pohořelice – Nová Ves from the 2nd half of the 5th century AD and Mušov from the 6th century AD. She is the author of studies dedicated to the archaeology of the Roman period and especially the Migration Period and actively participates in international conferences.

Bibliography:

• Vytlačil, Z.; Ackerman, L.; Loskotová, Z. 2025: Strontium isotopes in human mobility research: BASr proxies in an anthropologically modified landscape. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 61, 104906.
• Loskotová, Z. Reopening graves. Post-Funerary Activities at Moravian Migration Period Cemeteries (5th and 6th Centuries AD). Študijné zvesti Archeologického ústavu SAV 2023, 70 (2), 269–308.
• Vai, S., Brunelli, A., Modi, A., Tassi, F., Vergata, C., Pilli, E., Lari, M., Susca, R. R., Giostra, C., Baricco, L. P., Bedini, E., Koncz, I., Vida, T., Mende, B. G., Winger, D., Loskotová, Z., Veeramah, K., Geary, P., Barbujani, G., Caramelli, D., Ghirotto, S. 2019: A genetic perspective on Longobard-Era migrations. European Journal of Human Genetics 27(4), 647–656. 

• Loskotová, Z. 2019: Late Migration Period square-headed bow brooches decorated with knobs in the context of the recent find in Mušov, Moravia. Přehled výzkumů 60(1), 143–156. 
• Loskotová, Z. 2013: Lombard burial grounds and graves of social elites north of the Middle Danube in the light of recent research. In: Hardt, M., Heinrich-Tamáska, O., eds. Macht des Goldes, Gold der Macht. Herrschafts- und Jenseitsrepräsentation zwischen Antike und Frühmittelalter im mittleren Donauraum. Weinstadt: Bernhard Albert Greiner, 321–337.
• Loskotová, Z. 2012: An early- 5th-century skeleton grave with gold neck-ring from Charváty (Moravia). Arheološki institut. In: The Pontic-Danubian Realm in the Period of the Great migration. Paris: Association des amis du Centre dʻhistoire et civilisation de Byzance, 189–205.
• Loskotová, Z. 2011: Die Przeworsk-Kultur im südlichen Teil des Oberschlesiens am Ende der römischen Kaiserzeit und am Anfang der Völkerwanderungszeit. Přehled výzkumů 52(1), 111–137.
• Loskotová, Z. 2010: Das Waffenbrandgrab der Przeworsk-Kultur aus Stěbořice. Slovenská archeológia 58(1), 53–79.